The polio vaccine prevents an infection that can lead to paralysis or death. Learn who should get it and when, plus the risks of declining vaccination rates.

Routine polio shots aren't done for people aged 18 or older who live in the U.S. Most people are already vaccinated. But three groups of adults have higher risk for polio infection. You may want ...

Daughter of reporter and editor Bill Cunningham on a quest to collect his accounts of iron lung treatment and physical therapy he received while recovering.

Polio rarely causes paralysis in infants ... age the threat of a second attack from the "great crippler of young adults." The goal of preventing all new infections is in sight.

In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue, headaches, stiffness and limb pain after exposure to the poliovirus, according to the World Health Organization ...

The disease, whose early symptoms are like the flu, struck mostly children, although adults, including Franklin ... three types to protect against all polio. One of the hardest things about ...

The WHO has orchestrated two mass vaccination campaigns during pauses of fighting in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

While the five countries reporting the virus maintain high immunization coverage, with three doses of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), subnational coverage of the third dose of the polio ...